“The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.” MenWorldAsksNationsChurchAnswersCuttingCryBrotherBlessedEvery ManHungryAbundance Author:Pope Paul VI
“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.” PeopleMenYoungChurchPoorMorningSawsConditionsStrangeFoolMarriedMen And WomenDelightEvery ManMerryGazing Author:Samuel Pepys
“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?” MenFirstsSaidStatesFatherBornChurchDemocracyCenturyTheoryPropertyEvery ManOrganizedTheftInventorWorkshopsMontesquieu Book:Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers
“Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God.” MenWayLongSaidSpiritJesusChurchHolyEvery ManPriestsFollowersPriesthoodHoly Ground Book:The Unity of Being Source: The Unity of Being
“Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.” IfsMenWorldShouldCountryJesusChristChurchStudyJesus ChristHistoricalEvery ManAuthenticityMemorialEpochComposureCassiusBrutus Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to make a record of every official act of your life. If you baptize, confirm, ordain, or bless any person or administer to the sick, write an account of it. If every man will do this, the Church can write a correct account of it...if the power and blessings of God are made manifest in your preservation from danger...you should make a record of it. Keep an account of the dealings of God with you daily. I have written all the blessings I have received, and I would not take gold for them.” IfsMenFeelsShouldWritingPersonsMadeChurchRecordsWrittenDangerBlessingGoldSickAccountsEvery ManPreservesOfficialsBlessManifestPreservationAdviseDealings Author:Wilford Woodruff